The Rogue Nation of Thoets is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Diane Inside with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate population of 2.485 billion Thoetians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sidehoe. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Thoetsian economy, worth 282 trillion Ratpisses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 113,521 Ratpisses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A formerly quiet little town is now booming as both a cult centre and a tourist attraction, the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside, and people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thoets's national animal is the Dodo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.